Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

A judgment of the court of appeals, finding that the trial court abused its discretion in admitting extraneous offenses into evidence and reversing defendant's conviction for sexual assault and impersonating a public servant, is reversed where the facts of the charged offense and the extraneous offenses showed a pattern of conduct sufficiently distinctive to constitute a "signature," a distinctive and idiosyncratic manner of committing criminal acts, and thereby qualified as an exception to the general rule precluding the admission of extraneous-offense evidence.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/20/2006
• Published 12/20/2006

Judges

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark J. Kelly, Texas City, for Appellant., B. Warren Goodson Jr., Asst. Criminal District Atty., Galveston, Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for State.